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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for host aliases in config files
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:44:53 +0100
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To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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Johannes Schindelin wrotr:
 
> I just tried this:
> 
> $ git config rewrite."master.kernel.org:/pub".url \
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/
> 
> and it worked.  IOW, the config will look like this:
> 
> [rewrite "master.kernel.org:/pub"]
>         url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/
> 
> So maybe this is easier to grasp?

Perhaps that it is easier to grasp, but imho it is backwards,
as it is inherently 1 -> 1 in <original> -> <rewritten>,
while I think it is more common to have n -> 1, i.e. multiple
URLs (aliases), multiple alternative "spellings" with one
tried way to access repository.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland